According to the Supreme Court, in India the right to privacy is an elevated fundamental right. Several existing and new laws would now have to pass the test of not being violative of the fundamental right of privacy.

Europe's new data and privacy rules take effect a week from Friday, clarifying individual rights to the personal data collected by companies around the world for targeted advertising and other purposes.

"In India, we have 400 installations. Bajaj Auto was one of the early adopters of our robots. They weigh 3-kilogram and are priced in the range of Rs 15-20 lakh a unit. They can work for 35,000 hours at full payload round the clock," David said.

Responding to calls for transparency after the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, Facebook yesterday said those closures came on top of blocking millions of attempts to create fake accounts every day.

Russia is a small market for SAP, representing just 2 percent of its global revenue, but its actions highlight the complications facing global technology firms operating in a world divided over national security concerns.

Fintech is the new buzzword that inspires both fear and expectation in minds of incumbents. Alternate lending, specifically, splits the banking industry through the middle is it a harbinger for change that will disrupt lending as we know it today? Or is it an incremental shift towards a more technology and data oriented lending model, which will be mastered by banks themselves? If one starts to peel the onion, one will realize that the transformative potential of alternate lending goes far Read more..

One of the top priorities of a CFO is to have an accurate vision of the companys performance. The mission is to support decision making analysis and to improve business performance almost in real time with greater efficiency. In an age where social media platforms such as Twitter, Whatsapp and Facebook are leveraged to capture consumer attention, one critical success factor is the way this information is provided to the business in order to smoothen and speed up the decision making process. Read more..

What is Bitcoin To understand bitcoin and the technological breakthrough it represents, we need to go back in time and understand the invention of money.Money preexisted writing and the earliest writing discovered is an accounting ledger (who owes how much money and to whom). We have all read in high school economics that money needs to be scarce, durable, divisible and portable. What we have used as money has changed several times in history. From sea shells, beads, cattle to gold to paper Read more..

Recently, Mitra, the Robot met Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. And Mitra can meet customers, discuss with them, provide relevant support, welcome guests and even can tweet. Last month, Sophia, the Robot has been awarded a citizenship by Saudi Arabia. Let us go back a few years. Do you remember the movie Robot starring Rajinikanth? Chitti, played by Rajinikanth, had the ability to follow and exhibit human emotions. Or other Hollywood flicks? What was once in the realm of films, fiction and Read more..

Depending on the hemisphere you live in, you probably think that blockchain is either the Rajnikant or Chuck Norris of all technologies. Thanks to the massive media coverage and billions of dollars of investments, blockchain is a word that almost everyone has heard. Is blockchain over-hyped? Or under-hyped? Let's presume the Government bans all paper and coin currency and replaces the conventional Indian rupee with iCoin, a blockchain based virtual currency issued by the Reserve Bank. The Read more..

The world is changing at an exponential pace. Every day new technologies and new types of jobs are being created. Many new industries spring up due to globalisation and the technology revolution. In true Darwinian style, only those that adapt quickly will succeed in this era. How you prepare yourself for the future will depend on how you ride that wave. Technology is the most critical ingredient driving this rapid pace of change. We all experience this in our day to day lives. Banking is one Read more..

Recently, I read about Dubai announcing its plan to be the worlds first Blockchain-powered government, with a plan to be 100% on blockchain by 2020. The blockchain technology which is going to be implemented in Dubai will remove all middlemen such as lawyers, accountants, bankers, immigration officers and government officials by the year 2020. Similarly, the Singapore Government with the Association of Banks in Singapore is harnessing blockchain technology for more efficient inter-bank Read more..

Talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere and so is the real thing from the intelligent assistant on your smartphone to the recommendations from your online shopping site down to the customized promotional images you see on your online video streaming site. We also already have software that can write software. Soon AI will bring us self-driving cars, bots that understand our emotions and machinery that can repair itself! In this fevered atmosphere, it would be easy for a CFO to Read more..

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